Nos 30 and 31 and Attached Steps and Forecourt Railings
NOS 30 AND 31 AND ATTACHED STEPS AND FORECOURT RAILINGS, 30 AND 31, LEMON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201481
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 30 and 31 and Attached Steps and Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NOS 30 AND 31 AND ATTACHED STEPS AND FORECOURT RAILINGS, 30 AND 31, LEMON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201481
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 30 and 31 and Attached Steps and Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOS 30 AND 31 AND ATTACHED STEPS AND FORECOURT RAILINGS, 30 AND 31, LEMON STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NOS 30 AND 31 AND ATTACHED STEPS AND FORECOURT RAILINGS, 30 AND 31, LEMON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Truro
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 82549 44615
Details
TRURO
SW8244NE LEMON STREET 880-1/7/138 (East side) 29/12/50 Nos.30 AND 31 and attached steps and forecourt railings
GV II
Includes return into Fairmantle Street. Pair of town houses at end of row. c1803. By Randell, builder. Granite ashlar basement, otherwise coursed dressed local stone with some granite dressings; pair of dry Delabole slate hips behind parapets plus slate-hung gable behind left-hand hip. Double-depth-plan pair, similar at the front. 2 storeys over basement; nearly symmetrical 1:1:1- bay front. Nearly central pair of doorways set within porch formed by first-floor canted stuccoed bay window, with horned sashes under a moulded parapet cornice, carried on 2 slender Tuscan columns; within the porch are 2 x 6-panel doors under a blind elliptical fanlight; flanking 1-window fronts with shallow segmental arches with projecting key blocks, mid-floor strings and moulded parapets; probably original 20-pane sashes to No.30 (left), later 4-pane horned sashes to No.31. INTERIOR: No.31 has many original carpentry and joinery details and some plaster ceiling cornices. No.30 not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: pair of stepped bridges either side of porch with balustrade, step and forecourt railings plus central basement steps.
Listing NGR: SW8254944615
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377453
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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